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Updated: June 7, 2025
The first member of the Fortescue household who met Broussard gave him a rapturous greeting. This was Kettle, who opened the massive doors to visitors. "Hi! Mr. Broussard, I cert'ny is glad to see you, and Miss 'Nita, she is right heah in the drawin'-room, and I spect she jump fer joy when she see you!" shouted Kettle, who was a child of nature and spoke the truth as he saw it.
"Cert'ny, sir, of course," said Pringle; and he hurried out of the room, leaving father and son staring at each other across the table. "Think he heard, Sam?" said James Brandon, looking more ghastly than ever. "No, not he. Couldn't have heard more than a word or two. He daren't listen." "Think not, Sam?" "Sure of it, dad. There, I'll be off now." "Yes, do; and pray be careful.
It cert'ny is nice livin' when you can wear fussy-fixy velvet and silk clothes and lacey waists. John Edward and Elmore, bein' boys, couldn't get no good of them, so we give John Edward the little lace-flounced umberill to carry and Elmore a painted open-and-shut fan. Them's the things the lady give us where mommer sews for," she explained, in answer to Miss Margery's bewildered look.
Fortescue stopped a moment to congratulate the chaplain on his sermon. Behind her stood Kettle, who was never very far away from Miss Betty. "I listen to that sermon, suh," said Kettle, earnestly, to the chaplain, "and it cert'ny wuz a corker, suh."
But her mistress tried to disguise her amusement so far as possible. To her surprise, the question seemed to restore the black woman to a fresh sense of her dignity in the situation. "Cert'ny I done it," she exclaimed, dramatically. "Cert'ny. You reckon I'd live in de house wid a man dat 'd handle a broom? No, ma'am. Nex' thing I'd look for him to sew. No, ma'am.
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